Starting a three-part overview of the dominating role that affluence plays in British people's lives.
Happiness? After 50 years of relative prosperity and the consumer society, has money bought happiness? Or have modern society's values, coupled with a work-to-spend culture, conspired to produce the opposite effect? In the first programme two well-to-do materialists undergo periods of time without their creature comforts and non-essential items, while three organisations integral to the worldwide anti-consumerism movement are profiled.
Director David Berry ; Executive producer Stewart Lansley